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...visit you monthly if you have health concerns. These organizations can also help you find alternative housing, such as assisted living, should you need it. For Minneapolis, Minn., widow Rosalie Alden, 81, a retired physical therapist with no children, the solution is a support network right in her own backyard. Two sets of neighbors take Alden, who has survived cancer and a stroke, to see her doctor and run errands. They have keys to her home and see her almost daily, and one neighbor phones every evening to check on her. Alden's two nieces have power of attorney...
Instead of being cremated, as promised and paid for, these families' relatives had been stacked like firewood in piles of a dozen or more, jammed into sheds and buried haphazardly in the backyard of the crematory owners. For the rest of the week the families took the urns they thought contained their loved ones' ashes to the Walker County Civic Center in hopes of putting them to rest--again. "One woman had her mama in her lap. The next one had her uncle. The next one had her brother," recalls Gary Guy, 50, who had come from Ringgold...
...days when professionals were considered to have a monopoly on wisdom are ending, thank God. And Bono's advocacy is an important part of that change. "He understands," says Trevor Neilson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, "that the battle for development is going to be won at the backyard barbecue, not at the Council on Foreign Relations." Fire up the grill...
Bidding for its seventh straight Eastern title and tenth in the last 11 years, the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team was unseated by Princeton in its own backyard this weekend. Despite three individual wins each by Harvard sophomore John Cole and junior Dan Shevchik, the Crimson saw the Tigers rally back from a 42.5-point deficit after two days of competition—not to mention a third-place showing at the H-Y-P meet last month—to claim its first title since...
...Kelly was a strict taskmaster on the set, an obsessive games-player in team charades at home with friends. (Gene and Betsy Kelly were a bit like the Kennedys, athletic, competitive and clannish; late in life, Gene looked like a much fitter Teddy.) Playing volleyball in the backyard, he became so vexed at his inability to score that in anger he stomped his foot, broke an ankle ? and convinced friend Fred to come out of his first retirement and take over the Kelly role in "Easter Parade...